forfeit $11 billion.
Last November, at the end of a month-long trial, Bankman-Fried—known colloquially as SBF—was found guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the collapse of FTX.
The exchange had fallen to pieces in November 2022 after running dry of funds with which to process customer withdrawals. The money was missing, the jury concluded, because Bankman-Fried had conducted an elaborate fraud whereby billions of dollars’ worth of user funds was swept into a sibling company and used to bankroll high-risk trading, venture bets, debt repayments, personal loans, political donations, and a lavish life in the Bahamas.
In a court filing, the US government described the affair as “one of the largest financial frauds in history.” Bankman-Fried had demonstrated “unmatched greed and hubris” and a “brazen disrespect for the rule of law,” it said.
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-ftx-fraud/…
osive energy of life, continually creating as it moves. [IT] traces a way or path which is, potentially, reflected in each individual being. To be "in" tao or connected to tao is to experience meaning and move with the energy of life. THIS IS FUNDAMENTAL VALUE. [IT] IS experienced as meaning, joy, freedom,
connection, compassion, creativity, insight.
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The polyhedron consists of 12 regular pentagons and has fundamental golden connections.
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.“ - Salvador Dali
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over which Queen Victoria ruled with an iron fist of discipline, forever committed to her own
soul-mate connection with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Unfortunately that
'iron fist of discipline' precluded Victoria as Queen, from the inter-personal relationships with
others and particularly her children, which are best alluded to by Muriel Rukeyser, in her
Speed of Darkness poems. As the Goodreads synopsis states ... In an essay on the poet
Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich writes that Rukeyser "was one of the great integrators, seeing
the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and
emotional repair."
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s compassion for myself in another
form. It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering — the suffering you feel is real
suffering, just as the other person is suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering
in themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way to reduce the other person’s
suffering, and your own. If the other person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because
you’ve reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.
That’s a powerful thing.
And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion.
But that’s the only kind there is.
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compassion for myself in another
form. It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering — the suffering you feel is real
suffering, just as the other person is suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering
in themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way to reduce the other person’s
suffering, and your own. If the other person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because
you’ve reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.
That’s a powerful thing.
And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion.
But that’s the only kind there is.
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